{"id":18976,"date":"2016-03-18T11:17:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=18976"},"modified":"2016-03-18T11:17:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:17:12","slug":"barber-school-bill-clears-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=18976","title":{"rendered":"Barber school bill clears first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would update Nebraska barber laws to align with federal financial aid requirements advanced to select file March 18.<\/p>\n<p>LB842, introduced by Malcolm Sen. Ken Haar, would require a high school diploma or GED prior to admittance to a barber school if the school operates as a postsecondary barber college. Haar said the change is required by the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is important because it enables barber students to be eligible for financial aid through federal programs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also would allow the state barber board to continue to authorize licensed barber schools at the non-postsecondary level.<\/p>\n<p>LB842 advanced to select file on a 35-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would update Nebraska barber laws to align with federal financial aid requirements advanced to select file March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-18976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-ken-haar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18978,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18976\/revisions\/18978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}